@cmas which website you use to find how many lawsuits were filed by Dassault in US ?? Can you please share 

I am not sure where to get data that how litigious this company is in Germany or in general in europe 

No they haven't sent any letter to Germany address yet ..

I have received second letter today with giving warning for legal action if not replied before 15th .. 

Can anyone suggest what to do ? @cmas@dx100uk.

I am not sure to what extent they have details available and they have kept ansys guys in CC as well ..

My company is in India and i used it on IP address of Germany ..i am not sure what they can do ... @cmas ..

But this looks like they are a bit serious about it now ..even my company do not have enough revenues to pay them for license ..

Does anyone know in case if I got for settlement how they usually negotiate ..if you don't have money to pay for it what they can do ?

I am worried now which direction to go next ..Screenshot_20201209-001407__01__01-converted.pdf

So you mean they haven't file any cases in respect with Ansys so far ??

Is there any websites I can check for ??

Not replied to their email ..what usually they do next ?? @dx100uk @cmas

do you know any cases where they stopped chasing ?? @cmas in your case they stopped chasing now ?

also do you guys know websites where i can check how many litigations it went to in last years?

This is competition company from Dassault ..

Additionally when I look into the letter carefully sent i have noticed some things 

1. they have CCed people from Ansys

2. CJCH solicitors have signed it as well 

3. They have written which versions used and what timeframes (not very precisely but covered all the years). Even my PC was shut for 2 years in that time frame. 

You all had similar types of letter which looks very real ?

Thanks 

Yes @dx100ukthey dont know if i have received it or not .. but who knows they might use some software to check if you have seen the email or not  ?`

@cmas what finally happened in your case ? 

My problem is my company is involved with this which can make things very difficult for me .. we do wish to buy this license but the costs are very very heavy. 

Do you know they force only to buy license or put penalties as well ? If you guys have heard of any cases ? 

For now I am not going to reply .. as they have given me date of 4th Dec .. let's see what happens after that .. 

i believe it is more than 40k USD .. 

Ansys Electronics Desktop

28 minutes ago, cmas said:

So they have collected your email address from the monitoring software. Used the domain to connect it to your business.

 

You do not use a VPN?

 

Does your company offer a product or service that could theoretically make use of this Ansys software package?  

I have not used VPN its my mistakee 

Yes my company offers products and services in similar domains .. 

4 minutes ago, dx100uk said:

never respond as they have no way of knowing if you ever get the emails anyway

VPN doesn't help either..old wives tale.

 

the details are harvested by the software upon installation and are emailed out via their own smp imbedded in the installation.

it also emails out whenever you do certain things with files too.

 

careful monitoring via one of the many port scanners will show the active smtp port. close it

I have just shut down the pc and uninstall everything for now .. but i am sure they will keep .... my brain .. 

Thanks @dx100uk @cmas for your reply 

Letter is addressed to me with my company address ..i guess they took everything from my website ..

This is my small company which is in struggling phase trying to do something ..don't have any money to give it to them ..i dot not have any registered office in Germany and company is registered in India.. 

What i should do guys suggest me ?? 

It seems they have my company details, my details, ip address they monitored 

They have also CCed people from ansys as well ..they have found my company and found my email addresses as well ..they have asked me to reply by 4th Dec ?? I have received this email from UK office and I am in Germany ..

Also do they have all the simulation file logs as well ?? I haven't used it for any commercial but for my own learnings ..but i can't prove it as well but can they ??

I have received the same letter om Friday from CJCH solicitors for Ansys infringement ..what i should do guys ??